Joe Nkhoma, J-Life Regional Director, Southern Africa
Equipping the Local Church for discplemaking multiplication and transformation among Leaders, women and emerging Leaders still remains a huge task in Africa. As J-Life in Southern Africa, we have stepped out in these uncertain times of the pandemic to contribute positively - equipping Leaders in how to still continue to multiply disciplemakers during Covid.
Since the beginning of this year we have managed to start three GC2 and two disciple making groups across the region. Four Leaders that attended the training have started their own groups and evidence of transformation has been seen. One Lady started her own group immediately after the training with her neighbors. The neighborhood that never used to relate well with each other are now building authentic relationships through prayer and doing charity work in the community.
We have taken an intentional step in mobilizing a movement of disciplemaking among young people in Zambia. We are using sport as a tool to reach out and develop relationships among young people. So far we have started journeying with twenty young people and all this has happened through sports.
Finally, we pioneering in Angola, Namibia and Botswana. In Namibia and Angola there are already country initiators and in Botswana prayers are been conducted.
Prayer Requests:
- Please pray for the six weeks intern programme starting in June
- Please pray for our family health and provision for schools
- Please pray for sports ministry among young people which has started with great momentum
- Please pray for completion of the house at the ministry centre
- Please pray for the pioneering work in Angola, Botswana and Namibia
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The Nkhoma family serving with
J-Life Zambia
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Brian Mulega, J-Life Country Leader, Zambia
Despite the Covid-19 situation, J-Life Zambia has continued to mobilize disciplemaking movements within the Church in Zambia. We thank Jesus for new ministry opportunities that He is opening in different regions especially in our new gateway cities as we pursue the J-Life Vision 2030. We have kept rolling out the vision and ensuring that the MBX's understand the vision and pursue it intensely.
We are currently working through the Disciplemaking Small Group training. We also thank God for the women involvement which is growing steadily. Dorcas, my wife, has been doing a great work in this area. Coaching and mentoring has also continued despite the Covid-19 challenge. We are still praying for many more women to come on board.
Prayer Requests:
• Praying for continued protection for all J-Life Zambia staff and their families
• Praying for the success of our forthcoming National Summit in April
• Praying for more churches to open their doors to J-Life
• Praying for the internship program which we are intending to resume this year
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The Mulega family serving with
J-Life Zambia
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Fransisco Carlos (Chico), J-Life Country Leader, Mozambique
Since Covid-19, we've been working in our community, reaching out mostly to kids, teens and young people through Portuguese and English classes. We were able to connect to fewer families, but were able to go deep with the few. Last year was more of building friendships and connecting to our neighbours. We started off by teaching the younger ones stories from the Bible (creation), which went pretty well with the help of three girls from different churches we were able to team up with and by God's grace it worked out so well.
With the Anglican Youth - we were and still are meeting one-on-one due to the restrictions, and as a group they meet using Whatsapp.
Prayer Requests:
- Please pray that this year will be different as my plan is to plant more seeds (Word) and that that hearts will soften
- That I get more people involved (leaders), as my wife is going back to varsity
- For God's provision for my family
- Our J-Life Summit which we are planning to have in Northern Mozambique
- Launching J-Life in one more Province (Quelimane)
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The Carlos family serving with
J-Life Mozambique
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Munya Takawira, J-Life Country Leader, Zimbabwe
J-Life Zimbabwe's 2030 Vision is to grow 33 leaders who are planted like trees in 6 gateway cities around the country. At present, we are currently in 4 cities and hope that by God's grace we will be in 6 by the end of 2021. However, the year started off with Zimbabwe getting in to a serious lockdown as the 2nd wave hit throughout the country. Closer to our hearts, we lost a brother from Bulawayo who had hosted us during our summit. The country has been under lockdown, which meant our interactions were limited to online conversations using the Whatsapp platform mainly.
Now that the restrictions have been eased we are preparing to do some in person workshops as we seek to grow our leaders. One pastor in Masvingo has a group of student pastors that he is scheduled to take through training. I am going to continue with a group of leaders online as we look to explore material on Disciplemaking small groups.
Prayer Requests:
- All MBs (Movement Builders) as we look to training and discipling leaders more in better conditions
- Potential pioneering work in Gweru. We need to raise resources to travel and stay there for a few days
- Training of student pastors in Masvingo
- One-on-one ministry with young leaders in Bulawayo
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The Takawira family serving with
J-Life Zimbabwe
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Jeremy Koeries, J-Life Country Leader, South Africa
We praise God for a successful but challenging 6 weeks youth worker intensive, the wisdom, character and unity of our internship leaders and team, growing partnerships with various ministries (Hopetown, Siyakhula, Message Trust) doing holistic disciplemaking for community transformation, the new GC2 groups that were launched so far this year, one of our MBx's (Movement Builder Multipliers) leading a course for women, training and encouraging them to mobilise relationships for discipling other women in light of the challenges of Covid-19, MBXs who are writing and studying to advance the Kingdom agenda.
Prayer Requests:
- Ongoing training, coaching and mentoring Youth Workers, and funding for bursaries
- Property with ideal space for our Youthworker internships
- Renewed commitment from our MBXs and MBs to wisely and creatively Cast Wide, Narrow Down and Go Deep with VISION 2030, despite the challenges of COVID19
- Open doors and safety for me to travel across the SA, supporting MBXs in new Cast Wide initiatives and pioneering into new regions planning for new online Cast Wide initiatives
- Our Monthly Movement Meetings, our national online gathering of disciplemakers
- J-Life SA Summit later this year
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The Koeries family serving with
J-Life South Africa
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Bhuti & Jann Kheswa, Internship Directors, South Africa
One of the ways J-Life South Africa implements “Go Deep” with a few is through our GC2 Internship. The internship seeks to help young leaders grow in their walk with God and to equip them to be disciplemakers.
On the 10th of January we started our 6 week Intensive training with 7 ministry interns. It is always exciting to welcome a new group, get to know them and journey with them over the 6 weeks. We spend time praying together, studying the Word, having meals, doing household chores and ministry training classes. This allows us to get into each others' lives, hold one another accountable and challenge each other to be more like Jesus. A beautiful thing about community life is that we are all at different commitment levels so we can inspire and learn from one another. Yet another reality is that disciplemaking, like raising kids, is a messy process. We had our hands full, and we saw God at work.
In the end, 6 weeks feels short because there was more to be done, issues to addressed, habits to challenge. We have to be reminded that we are only playing a tiny role in what God is doing in the lives of the interns. God was at work in their lives before they came to us, so we have to believe that "... he who began a good work in the lives of these interns will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." Philippians 1:6
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The Kheswa family serving with
J-Life South Africa
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Samuel Dewa, J-Life Country Leader, Malawi
This ministry is changing lives, churches and ministries in Malawi!
Firstly it has changed me - the way I approach ministry and disciplemaking. I want to see lives transformed, churches transformed and communities transformed.
Prayer Requests:
- Be praying for all the deliberate initiatives we are making to achieve our goals
- For the 24 MBX's (Movement Builder Multipliers)
- Pray for our two targeted Gateway Cities
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The Dewa family serving with
J-Life Malawi
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GROWING A DISCIPLEMAKING MOVEMENT ...
A look at more ministry happening across Africa
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